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Losing the battle: Perceived status loss and contemplated or attempted suicide in older adults.

Alexandre Y DombrovskiElizabeth N AslingerAidan G C WrightKatalin Szanto
Published in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry (2018)
In older adults, the experience of status loss is associated with contemplated and attempted suicide even after accounting for objective indicators of social status and psychopathology. It is possible that suicidal individuals retrospectively inflate their previous status, making their current standing appear even worse by comparison.
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